“A preacher of the gospel can say no condemnation, but no one else can. If a preacher of the gospel undertakes to deliver this message, he must preach it to every creature. He must do it in the spirit of the Sunday School song I learned when I was a kid—preach to red and yellow, black and white. Does that sound corny? Too bad.”
Not This Week Anyway
“The answer is that such a thing is impossible. Being impossible, it may be tentatively ranked among those things that are not going to happen.”
The Guilty Pleasure of Guilt
David Stove “refers to whites who ‘having renounced the pleasures of power . . . discover the pleasures of guilt.’ This goes double for the evangelical racial healers, who—in possession of the Holy Spirit—do for our race relations what Benny Hinn does for rheumatoid arthritis.”
How Context Matters
“Put another way, black lives matter would be a wonderful sentiment if we found it in a personal letter of William Wilberforce to his mother.”
No Authority to Say “Stop”
“One of the reasons why a justice system has to be manifestly uncorrupted is that people will not stop rioting in the streets in order to let a corrupt system handle their grievances.”
Not the Best Idea
“To go along with any level of this PC foolishness is like going on a bender in Bangkok and getting a tattoo from a guy whose English is not that strong.”
In the Name of Opposing Lynchings
“To revile due process is to become, in principle, a defender of lynchings.”
Mostly Feathers
“There are some insufferable bores out there, and there are people who puff themselves up like a barn owl when it is ten below.”
Not Enough Money in the World
“You can’t hire enough cops to contain a nation of fatherless men.”
Which Is Pretty White
“Some men carry their sin in front of them like a shield, and others drag it behind them, like a rope. With some men, we see the consequences of the sin right away. With others, we don’t see it for a good seventy-five years, and even then there is debate among the learned. So Baltimore is not what happens when blacks govern themselves. Baltimore is what happens when anybody governs according to the pious platitudes of the whitest people in New England.”